US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 17 for "Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for generating data based on a captured image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,394, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for generating data based on a captured image" was invented by Waki Midorikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image processing apparatus specifies a first area in a captured image, the first area being an area in which another object having a possibility of occluding a target object for which to generate three-dimensional shape data may exist, the other object being not an object for which to generate three-dimensional shape data, and generates the three-dimensional shape data of the target object b...